Margaret von B. wrote:
I'm spinning Lonely and Blue. Thanks Andre for reminding I had Roy Orbison!
Lined up: Chris Rea - Auberge.

Cheers,

Margaret

Hey! You inspired me to take down my pop box. Three discs of Roy
Orbison, currently singing The Crowd, 48 songs altogether. Oh my God,
that is genuine blue collar longing, genuine emotion, nothing fake like
The Beatles, middle class boys pretending to be working class. Next out
of the box, behind the three Orbison discs, I grabbed this handful,
which are waiting on my side table:
a Chuck Berry (1) compilation cover disc from a magazine series we
designed, Fontella Bass No Ways Tired, Nat King Cole Let's Face the
Music, The Bonzo Dog Band. My pop library is only about 250 discs,
including recorded humour and indispensable musicals and film music,
and that is a fair representation: it probably types me as an incurably
old-fashioned 1950/60s rocker/romantic, zero street cred. Watch me
worry, Dr Neumann.

I'll also look out the Songs of the Auvergne though not by Chris Rea!
Thanks for the mnemonic transference, Margaret.

This is a super thread you started.

Andre Jute

(1) One of the great quotes of the twentieth century: "They pulled the
plug in the middle of my song. That's like pulling a man off the job."
-- Chuck Berry, explaining in two short sentences what rock'n'roll was
really about, putting all the intellectuals in their place.